Created by Robert Martin Pseudonyms include Lee Roberts (1908-76) Although Robert Martin's best known for the long string of novelettes and novels he wrote about Cleveland, Ohio gumshoe Jim Bennett (and his secretary and future wife, Sandy Hollis), he also penned several pulp shorts about equally sympathetic private eye LEE FISKE , occasionally under the pen name of Lee … Continue reading Lee Fiske
Category: Detective
Roy Raymond, TV Detective
Created by "Jack Miller (?) and Ruben Moreira (art) Everyone loved this Raymond. The first great private eye to appear in Detective Comics, rough-and-tumble Slam Bradley, a two-fisted, hard-boiled throwback to the pulp era, made his last regularly scheduled appearance in 1949 in issue #152. The very next issue marked the debut of a decidedly more modern … Continue reading Roy Raymond, TV Detective
Bill Yates
Created by Malcolm Douglas Pseudonym of Douglas Sanderson Other pseudonyms include Martin Brett (1922- 2002) At first I thought I'd discovered a long-lost Montreal eye here. And in a way I have. And in a way I haven't. BILL YATES is actually just Douglas Sanderson's Mike Garfin with a different name, released by another publisher … Continue reading Bill Yates
Mike Garfin
Created by Martin Brett Pseudonym of Douglas Sanderson Other pseudonyms included Malcolm Douglas (1922- 2002) "This is a dangerous town, did you know?" A Montreal eye! Born of an Irish-Canadian father and a French-Canadian mom, MICHEL "MIKE" GARFIN was left an orphan at an early age, and raised by the nuns (it's better than … Continue reading Mike Garfin
Ashe Cayne
Created by Ian K. Smith What is this shit? Seriously... I’m told the author is a popular TV doctor with a string of diet books to his name, but this is not the mystery genre’s finest hour. The Unspoken (2020), the series launch, is inept, smugly derivative and ultimately offensive to almost anyone with any … Continue reading Ashe Cayne
Lillian Pentecost & Will Parker
Created by Stephen Spotswood All the hype I've seen (and golly there's been a bunch!) surrounding playwright Spotwood’s terrific new mystery romp, Fortune Favors The Dead (2020), seems to namedrop Knives Out and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, but c’mon, man! If you can’t spot the clear ties to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, you better have your orbs … Continue reading Lillian Pentecost & Will Parker
Harry Lipkin
Created by Barry Fantoni (1940--) This isn't the first time author BarryFantoni has taken a good-natured poke at private eyes. A long-time contributor to British satirical magazine Private Eye (just coincidence, I'm sure) and a cartoonist for the Times, he wrote a couple of spot-on spoofs of the genre back in the eighties, featuring 1940s … Continue reading Harry Lipkin
Jeff Regan
Created by Jack Webb "I get ten a day and expenses...they call me the Lyon's Eye. The last of the three detective shows Jack Webb did before Dragnet made him a superstar was Jeff Regan, Investigator followed the adventures of JEFF REGAN. Regan (played by Webb, of course) was a rough-and-tumble private eye working for the International Detective … Continue reading Jeff Regan
Parker
Created by Richard Stark Pseudonym of Donald Westlake (1933-2008) "I'm only the messenger!" "Now you're the message," Parker told him, and shot him. -- Parker explains the facts of life, in Butcher's Moon Definitely not a private eye. Hell, sometimes he's so cold and ruthless, he's barely human. Maybe a shark, or some other predator? … Continue reading Parker
Jeff Thompson & Rocky (Miami Undercover)
Created by-- Shot almost completely on location in Miami, the 1961 syndicated TV show Miami Undercover followed the adventures of odd couple detective duo JEFF THOMPSON (played by Lee Bowman) and his partner "Rocky" (real-life middleweight boxing champ Rocky Graziano). The two were hired by the Miami Beach hotel association to go "undercover," posing as a wealthy … Continue reading Jeff Thompson & Rocky (Miami Undercover)